Remote Kafka Jobs

What’s on this page

Every remote role on 101 Careers that mentions Kafka — event-streaming engineers building real-time data pipelines, backend developers wiring event-driven microservices, data platform specialists running Kafka clusters at scale, and the streaming architects who design exactly-once semantics across a fleet of topics. Kafka matters because it changed the unit of integration: instead of systems querying each other directly, they publish and subscribe to durable streams of events, and that shift — from request-response to event-driven — is what lets modern platforms decouple teams, replay history and react to the world in real time. Every company that outgrows a monolith meets it: payments, clickstream, IoT telemetry, fraud detection and change-data-capture flows all converge on a Kafka backbone. The work is native to distributed teams in the most literal sense — a Kafka cluster is a lesson in distributed systems you operate remotely, and the skill set (partitions, consumer groups, exactly-once semantics, schema registries) transfers across every industry that has data in motion. The pool matches the skill in title or description rather than trusting titles, because "data engineer", "platform engineer" and "backend engineer" listings routinely list Kafka in the requirements without putting it in the title. The 108 roles below are sorted newest first, sourced mainly from employer ATS boards, and refreshed every few hours. 10 publish a salary range. 2 are open to junior candidates — backend seats that touch consumer groups are the usual entry door. Apply direct with no account and no fee.

Companies hiring right now

Data Edge, ElevenLabs, Sezzle, Quality Digital, Guidehouse, Parakeet, Jobbex IT, Sumara Technology and others are currently listing here.

How often this updates

Employer ATS boards are re-read every six hours and partner feeds every three. Roles that disappear from their source are retired automatically, so nothing on this page should be a dead link. Prefer it as a feed? RSS and a free JSON API are both open.